NOEL Gallagher insisted he had no regrets that Oasis snubbed the chance to be on the Trainspotting soundtrack - because they believed the film ​was about transport geeks.

Former Oasis guitarist Noel, 54, rejected requests from producer Danny Boyle to be involved in the 1996 flick - while it emerged that rave group Underworld continually refused offers because they did not want to be perceived as glorifying drug use.

Underworld were persuaded after meeting Boyle in person while Iggy Pop was thrilled when Irvine Welsh's character Sick Boy spent cash earmarked for his girlfriend's birthday present on a ticket to see Iggy at the Barrowlands instead.

The pop culture legends shared their recollections with author Jay Glennie in his book #25 Trainspotting - with Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie praising it for tapping into 'post-adolescence' which went on into his 30s.

Noel Gallagher said: “We were at our fu**ing height. I had never heard of Irvine Welsh or the book.

“Somebody called the office and asked did we want to record a song for the soundtrack of a pretty cool film that was coming out.”

He recalled saying “Trainspotting? Who the f*** wants to watch a film about f****** Trainspotters?!”

Asked if he regretted the rejection in hindsight, Gallagher said: “No, of course I f****** don’t.

"The 90s were great for me and I sold enough records."

He ended up partying with Harvey Weinstein and Irvine Welsh at Cannes.

In an introduction to the book, he wrote: “Would you get Trainspotting made today? I’m not sure you would.

"The world has gone into a state of paralysis, magic and art seems to have been destroyed and also spontaneity.

"The f****** internet has destroyed the ability to do or say anything; everyone has to pipe up and be a critic in the name of free f****** speech.

"We are living in a very corporate, right wing, stuck up its own arse f****** world, where art and artists have been marginalised.

"Nobody is pushing the boundaries.

"Irvine and Danny, and Ewan and Jonny, the whole Trainspotting team didn’t give a f*** about what anybody else thought and that’s how great art is created.

“Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction are the greatest films of the 90s.”

Iggy Pop, who agreed to allow Lust for Life to be used for the film’s thrilling opening sequence on Princes Street, was another fan of the book.

He says: “I got a big chuckle out of the whole thing. The gang in the book reminded me so much of The Stooges. I felt a sense of fatherly pride toward the character ‘Sick Boy’, who had obviously been derived from my song Death Trip.

"I was also happy about the scenes in which he spends his girlfriend’s birthday present money to go see me play Barrowlands.”

Bobby Gillespie said: “We bloody loved Irvine’s book.

“I had the early edition with the silver cover with two guys wearing masks. I loved it, especially the Scottish dialects.

"To me it is a book about post-adolescence, although with me my adolescence went into my late 20s and 30s.

“But in that post-adolescence period you are struggling to work out who you are and who you are hanging out with, and I think Irvine’s book captured that.”

More reluctant to be involved were Underworld, who did not want to be connected with anything “glorifying drug use”.

Co-founder of Underworld Rick Smith recalled: “We said no to every request and they continued to grow.”

But they were convinced after meeting Danny Boyle in his editing suite.

Smith added: “We had complete faith in Danny and just left it up to him where he wanted to use our songs.”